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Snow Riot, a Common card
The Snow Riot was a riot and lynch mob in Washington, D.C., that began on August 11, 1835, when a mob of angry white mechanics attacked and destroyed Beverly Snow's Epicurean Eating House, a restaurant owned by a black man.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 65
- DEF
- 54
- Power
- 119
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 4,700
Ranked #2,170 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- This violence, born of white men's frustration about having to compete with free blacks for jobs, touched off several days of white mob violence against free blacks, their houses, and establishments.
- It stopped only at President Andrew Jackson's intervention.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Snow Riot article was read about 4,700 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 65 and blocks with 54: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get Snow Riot
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Snow Riot (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Library of Congress, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
